Guduchi has all the properties of amritam.
It is the best rasayana for rejuvenating the body and getting
rid of deep rooted imbalances. In fact, it is so full of life that it can grow
without any soil or water.

The
ancient Ayurvedic text, Bhava Prakash, lists one of guduchi's names
as chinnodbhava (able to grow even after being cut). You can
suspend a cutting of guduchi in the air with no access to
water or soil and it will grow leaves and branches as if it were connected to
the ground.

Ayurveda
compares this to the ability of certain saints and rishis (seers)
who don't need water or food. They have what is called the amrit siddhi (ability
to live purely on vibrational energy). These saints get all the prana (soma,
agni and marut) from the air, the sun, the moon, and the
vibrational intelligence of the environment.

Guduchi is the Best of the Three Amrit Plants

There
are three plants which have amrit (nectar of the gods) in
them, according to Ayurveda. One is guduchi. The other two are
garlic and haritaki.

The Properties of Guduchi

Bhava
Prakash lists
many valuable properties of guduchi. Our tradition know many many
ways to use this plant. Here are a few highlights worth mentioning.

Guduchi is the one and only
Ayurvedic herb which can bind and get rid of both amavisha(reactive
toxins generated inside the body) and garavisha (xenobiotics
like mercury, pesticides, etc.) and reestablish the intelligence of the body
once it removes the toxins.

Guduchi is the #1 rasayana (rejuvenative
herb) in Ayurveda because it can really reverse aging, support the immune system
and detoxify. It has the vayasthapana prabhava (the ability of
making a person look youthful).

It
is described as sangrahani (helping to accumulate healthy dhatus,
or tissues). It travels to the gaps, or burners, between the dhatus and
helps to increase absorption there. If there is anykashaya (wasting)
in any tissue, guduchi helps to build it back.

This
is partly due to the fact that guduchi not only has lots of soma (nourishing
ability) but is also kashaya (astringent), laghu (light),
and has an ushna virya (hot thermogenic property).

The
warmth and lightness, as well as the subtle nature of the plant, allows the soma to
penetrate into the deep tissues, and the kashaya guna (astringent
quality) allows the soma to be absorbed by the tissues.

One
other important prabhava (special property) of guduchi is vakshagni
dipani. Vaksha means "chest" or
"heart" in Sanskrit. Agni means "flame." Dipani means
"strengthening the flame."Vakshagni dipani means that guduchi strengthens
the flame of the heart.

Just
as there is a pitta governing the heart and emotions (sadhaka
pitta), so there is a flame, or burner, in the heart (sadhaka agni or vakshagni).
The pitta is the fuel, and the agni is the
burner.

Guduchi cleans the burner and
strengthens the flame that processes all emotional challenges in life. When
this flame is strong, no emotional challenge is powerful enough to extinguish
it.

Depression
cannot happen if the sadhaka agni is strong. Anger cannot
happen when thevakshagni is strong. When the sadhaka agni is
burning brightly, one become spiritually free.

Because guduchi opens
the heart in this way, it also indirectly helps the mind by connecting the
light of the soul to the mind more easily. This is why it is also called a medhya
rasayana (good for the mind).

Conditions Where Guduchi is
Helpful

The
list is probably infinite, but here are a few of the conditions where guduchi is
reported byBhava Prakash to be helpful: daha (burning), meha (when
useful substances like sugar go out through the urine), kas (chronic
cough), pandutam (anemia), kamala (chronic
jaundice), kushta(skin diseases), vatasrajwara (vata
type of fever), krimi (pathogenic bacteria), vamimharet(vomiting
due to toxins), krichahridaroga (difficult to cure heart
conditions).

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